Elegant Roses for an 80th Birthday Celebration!

What's baking?

Five layers of yellow layer cake filled with rich chocolate filling and covered with swiss meringue buttercream roses. Fondant decorations and gum paste roses. Purple is popular this year as Pantone's Radiant Orchid is the 2014 Color of the Year!

ICING SMILES!

Just wanted to share one of my recent cake projects: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150845953957680.402695.138329607679&type=1

First Cake Competition!

What's baking?  First time entering a cake competition! Cake entry at the National Capital Area Cake Show was fondant covered cake with gum paste flowers and royal icing piped panels. Very happy to receive positive feedback and third place in divisional category!

What's in the Box?

What's baking? Shipping box with cake inside! All edible! Fun working with modelling chocolate.

Modelling with Fondant

Having fun modeling fondant figurines!

Cookies for event

What's baking? Cookies for Let's Get Ready event incorporating logo and colors!  Sugar cookies based on the Flour Pot recipe and fondant decorations.  Now is a great time to support Let's Get Ready and vote for them in the Chase Giving to help thousands of students get to college.  Or if you're in NYC you are invited to their next event!

Sweet 16 Cake

What's baking?
Chocolate chip cake based on Rose Levy Berenbaum's Downy Yellow Cake from The Cake Bible. Chocolate filling between four cake layers. Covered in buttercream and fondant. Flower design based on party invitation made from dark modelling chocolate, fondant and gum paste.

Fun Birthday Cake!

What's baking?

Vanilla cake with chocolate filling, butter cream icing, decorated with fondant and gum paste flowers.  Ellie's favorite flowers are roses and daisies and her favorite colors are pink, purple and yellow.

Anniversary Cake!

What's baking?

Cake to celebrate 25 years in private practice! Chocolate Chip Fudge Cake (Killer Cake) with white chocolate writing and gum paste and fondant decorations.
The recipe is from one of my favorite cookbooks, The Frog Commissary Cookbook. It's a delicious rich chocolate cake layered and iced with dark chocolate ganache-like icing with a hint of

Gum Paste & Fondant Figures

Taking a break to let gum paste dry and get ready to go teach - not quite turning out the way I had envisioned! It's a work in progress for cake due tomorrow!

November Cake Decorating Classes start next week!

Classes start next week at AC Moore, Montgomeryville, PA. Come have some fun, bring a friend and get ready to bake for the holidays.

Birthday Cake!

What's baking?
A birthday cake for a very special person celebrating a special birthday!

Cake Decorating Class - Gum Paste & Fondamt

I'll be teaching Gum Paste and Fondant Cake Decorating Class starting this Wednesday - not too late to sign up!

September Cake Decorating Classes

I will be teaching a Gum Paste and Fondant class in September at AC Moore in Montgomeryville.  This month the cost is 40% off the $45.  So it's only $27 for 8 hours of class plus supplies (lesson book, kit, cake stuff!)  Classes begin the first week of September so stop by the store to register or call (215) 699-7224 for the schedule or let me know if you have any questions.

Golf anyone!

cake to serve 100

What's baking?
This was so much fun to make!  One marble, one chocolate chip cake, both with chocolate filling, iced with buttercream.  Figures and decorations are gum paste and fondant.  (Everything's technically edible except flagpole and canopy supports on golf cart.)

Teacher Retirement

Fondant to go on top of cake (party was canceled due to extenuating circumstances!).

Another Thank You Cake!

What's baking?

 


A cake to thank retiring committee members.  Yellow Cake recipe from The Cake Bible cookbook, filled with chocolate buttercream, covered with vanilla buttercream.  Decorated with fondant/gum paste button flowers.  Learn this fun flower in the Flowers and Cake Design class I will be teaching next month.  As always you can click on the photos for larger images and click on the links for the recipes.  Let me know if you'd like to see the text of the recipes here on my blog or if the links to websites are good.  Thanks.

Cake Wreck!

What's Baking?

A white cake with raspberry filling. 

Happy Mother's Day!

What's baking?

Wilton Fondant and Gum Paste Course-  covering a cake board with fondant, marbleizing fondant, draping fondant, gum paste daisies.

Birthday Cake!

What's baking?
Marble cake with chocolate buttercream filling. Covered with fondant. Fondant and buttercream accents.